Blogpedia - A Laravel-based Blogging Website

About Blogpedia

Blogpedia is a Laravel-based project that allows users to create, read, update, and delete blog posts. It's just like a regular blogging website.

Setup this Locally on Windows

• Installations

  • Xampp
  • Composer

• Clone the repo

  Clone this repo to C:\xampp\htdocs on windows

• Install Dependencies using Composer

  Open termimal and run composer install

• Install Node Modules

  • Run npm install Command
  • Run npm run dev or npm run watch to compile resouces

• Copy the .env.example file to .env:

  cp .env.example .env

• Generate an application key:

  php artisan key:generate

• Setup Database

  • Open xampp and create new database named blogpedia
  • Update the database configuration in the .env file with your database details.
  • run php artisan migrate command.

• Setup File uploading

  • Open terminal and run php artisan storage:link

• Start the Xampp Server

  Open browser and go to localhost/blogpedia/public

• Setup Virtual host on Windows (Optional)

  • Go to C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra

  • Edit httpd-vhosts.conf

  • Paste the following and save the file:

  <VirtualHost *:80>
     DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
     ServerName localhost
  </VirtualHost>
  <VirtualHost *:80>
     DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/blog-website-using-laravel/public"
     ServerName blogpedia.io
  </VirtualHost>
  

  • Now open notepad as adminstrator

    • open file
    • Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
    • Select all files
    • Open host file
    • Paste the following at the end of file:

      127.0.0.1 localhost
      127.0.0.1 blogpedia.io
      

    • Restart Apache (Xampp)
    • Now open browser and type blogpedia.io

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License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.